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Originally Posted by HazelGirl
What do I want to get out of it? I don't really know 
I guess I want her to see all the things I've written down. It's a trauma journal, so it has my memories and traumatic experiences in it. I guess I want to know that she knows about all that junk and that I am no longer the only person on earth who knows. And it will give her a window into how I think and experience the world. It's terrifying, but I want to be more open and trusting with her, so I want to share this type of thing. |
That's a good start. It was a similar impetus that made me share my writing with my T. Next questions - and ones I wish I'd asked myself and had some idea of an answer to - How do you want T to respond to what you've written? And how do you want to address it in session?
Having even a vague idea of how you want to answer those two will, I think, help guide you in session a bit. I didn't ask those of myself and found myself stumbling over my thoughts and trying to figure out what I really needed to talk about. For me, in the end, all I really needed was to know that T had read what I'd written, and get her feedback. I know that if I want to discuss anything in greater detail, it will be easier now that she's read what I wrote, but there is no obligation to do so.